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The Totall Discourse, of the Rare Adventures, and Painefull Peregrinations of Long Nineteene Yeares Travayles from Scotland, to the Most Famous Kingdomes in Europe, Asia, and Affrica. Perfited by Three Deare Bought Voyages, in Surveighing of Forty Eight Kingdomes Ancient and Moderne; Twenty One Rei-publickes, Ten Absolute Principalities, with Two Hundred Ilands. The Particular Names Whereof, are Described in Each Argument of the Ten Divisions of this History: and it also Divided in Three Bookes; Two Whereof, Never Heretofore Published. Wherein is Contayned, an Exact Relation, of the Lawes, Religion, Policies, and Government of all their Princes, Potentates, and People. Together with the Grievous Tortures he Suffered, by the Inquisition of Malaga in Spaine, his Miraculous Discovery and Delivery Thence: and of his Last and Late Returne from the Northerne Iles

The Totall Discourse, of the Rare Adventures, and Painefull Peregrinations of Long Nineteene Yeares Travayles from Scotland, to the Most Famous Kingdomes in Europe, Asia, and Affrica. Perfited by Three Deare Bought Voyages, in Surveighing of Forty Eight Kingdomes Ancient and Moderne; Twenty One Rei-publickes, Ten Absolute Principalities, with Two Hundred Ilands. The Particular Names Whereof, are Described in Each Argument of the Ten Divisions of this History: and it also Divided in Three Bookes; Two Whereof, Never Heretofore Published. Wherein is Contayned, an Exact Relation, of the Lawes, Religion, Policies, and Government of all their Princes, Potentates, and People. Together with the Grievous Tortures he Suffered, by the Inquisition of Malaga in Spaine, his Miraculous Discovery and Delivery Thence: and of his Last and Late Returne from the Northerne Iles by Lithgow, William. (1582-ca. 1645)

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The Totall Discourse, of the Rare Adventures, and Painefull Peregrinations of Long Nineteene Yeares Travayles from Scotland, to the Most Famous Kingdomes in Europe, Asia, and Affrica. Perfited by Three Deare Bought Voyages, in Surveighing of Forty Eight Kingdomes Ancient and Moderne; Twenty One Rei-publickes, Ten Absolute Principalities, with Two Hundred Ilands. The Particular Names Whereof, are Described in Each Argument of the Ten Divisions of this History: and it also Divided in Three Bookes; Two Whereof, Never Heretofore Published. Wherein is Contayned, an Exact Relation, of the Lawes, Religion, Policies, and Government of all their Princes, Potentates, and People. Together with the Grievous Tortures he Suffered, by the Inquisition of Malaga in Spaine, his Miraculous Discovery and Delivery Thence: and of his Last and Late Returne from the Northerne Iles
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Lithgow, William. (1582-ca. 1645)
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London: Nicholas Okes, and are to be sold by Nicholas Fussell and Humphery [sic] Mosley, 1632. FIRST COMPLETE EDITION, FEATURING THE FIRST EDITION OF HIS SECOND AND THIRD JOURNEYS. Hardcover. Fine. Bound in contemporary blind-ruled calf, rebacked with original spine largely preserved. A fine copy with just a small damp-stain to the upper blank margin of the preliminary leaves, minor soiling to leaf 3M1, small spots on pages 139 and 309, small hole on leaf Ee4 costing one word and affecting two others. Lightly inked type at head of page 455. In addition to the woodcut frontispiece, there are woodcuts on pages 52, 124, 285, 287, 368, 374, 417, 455, and 464. First complete edition of William Lithgow's picaresque account of his raucous travels through North Africa, the Middle East, Eastern Europe (including modern Ukraine), the Mediterranean, and the British Isles in which he claimed to have walked more than 36,000 miles. Lithgow embarked on three international journeys: 1610-1613, 1614-1616, and 1619-1621. He first published his travelogue in 1614, revising it for editions in 1616 and 1623; this is the first edition to include accounts of his second and third journeys. The dramatic woodcuts depict Lithgow being tortured upside-down on the rack, beset by six murderers in Moldavia, and in irons at Málaga. There is also a woodcut view of the city of Fez among other illustrations. Lithgow describes encounters with "barbarous" Turks, surviving shipwreck and torture, and being ambushed by marauding Arabs on his journey from Aleppo to Jerusalem. In one harrowing episode in Sicily, Lithgow was nearly captured and enslaved by Moors, but he escaped and led the townspeople in a brief battle that resulted in the capture of the slavers and release of enslaved Sicilians: "I encountered . . . a Moorish Brigantine, with twelve oars on each side, who had secretly stayed there a night and a day stealing the people away labouring on the fields. About twenty Moores broke out upon me, with sabres & slings: But my life and liberty being deare to me, my long traced feete became more nimble . . . for I behoved to fly backe the same way I came. When freed, I hastened to the next Watchtower and there told the Centinell, how a Moorish Brigantine was lying within two miles at an obscure clift: and how hardly I escaped their hands. The Villagers came on horse and foot, and well armed, and the horse-men broke upon them, wounding divers, before they were all taken . . . and six Sicilians relieved whom they had stolen and thralled: Whence they were carried to Syracusa, where, by the way the people blessed me, and thanked God for mine escape, and me for discovering them . . . the governour of that place, for this piece of service, and my travels sake did feast me three dayes, and at my departure would have rewarded me with gold." (Lithgow, Totall Discourse, 333-334) "Lithgow's account makes stimulating reading because of the vigorousness of his English style and the personality of the author himself... His accounts of his travels through the Levant and North Africa provide at times interesting sidelights on social history: he confirms the new fashion in Britain, almost a craze, for consuming currants with everything; he is perhaps the first Briton to describe the by then popular phenomenon of coffee-drinking in the Turkish lands; he confirms the survival of the earlier medieval pigeon post in the Syrian lands and Egypt." (Bosworth 6) "By 1609 Lithgow visited Orkney and Shetland, Germany, Bohemia, Switzerland, and the Low Countries. He spent ten months in Paris before setting off, in March 1610, on a forty-day walk to Rome. There he inspected the antiquities, violently disapproved of Roman Catholic rites, and was, he claims, harried by the Inquisition. After encountering the 'ignorant devotion' of pilgrims to Loreto (Lithgow, Totall Discourse, 25) he sailed from Ancona to Venice. "At Khania in Crete, Lithgow says, he rescued a French protestant condemned to the Venetian galleys by getting his keeper drunk and smuggling him away disguised as a woman. After other adventures, including shipwreck on Chios, he saw what was then believed to be the remains of Troy and, surviving a beating by four French 'runnagates'". He landed in Constantinople, staying for three months with the ambassador, Sir Thomas Glover, and studied Turkish customs, religion, and society. "Lithgow visited Smyrna, Rhodes, Cyprus, and Aleppo. In the spring of 1612 he left Aleppo with a caravan of Armenians and Turks, travelling via Damascus to Galilee and eventually, on Palm Sunday, Jerusalem. During the journey marauding Arabs had to be fought off or paid off, an ambush was narrowly avoided. Lithgow looked askance at the rites and observances of his Franciscan hosts but was prepared on the whole to take more seriously the sights at the holy sepulchre, where he spent Easter. With a caravan including six German protestants he made the hard desert journey to Cairo in May 1612. He saw the pyramids and sphinx before sailing, by way of Malta, to Sicily. There, he claims, he narrowly escaped capture by Moorish slavers, raised the alarm, and, on the slavers' arrest, was feasted and richly rewarded by local people. He accompanied the earl of Bothwell and Captain George Hepburn to Rome, travelled fairly rapidly to the Alps, was saved from murder near Fréjus partly by his pilgrim's patent, and went to Montpellier, Barcelona, Pau, Bordeaux, and Paris, where ended 'my first, my painefull, and Pedestriall Pilgrimage' (ibid., 298). "Lithgow returned to Britain where he presented to King James a hunting rod which he had cut from a turpentine tree by the River Jordan and to Queen Anne some medicinal white earth from the cave in Bethlehem and a girdle and garters 'all richly wrought in silke and gold' and inscribed 'Sancto Sepulchro, and the word Jerusalem, &c.' (ibid., 247). "Lithgow departed for his second tour in September 1614. At Pistoia he was (allegedly) unjustly arrested and condemned to the galleys by the corrupt Bargello but freed by the governor and given 50 Florentine gold crowns in compensation. But the most famous or infamous (conceivably untrue) incident of the second journey took place in Sicily, where, coming upon the bodies of two noblemen who had killed each other, he stole and concealed their rings and money, alerted the townspeople to the deaths, retrieved the booty, and left Sicily for Malta. He went on to Fez, whose free sexual practices he abhorred but whose palaces, mosques, colleges, hospitals, and palatial taverns he admired. He traveled through Italy to Vienna, Hungary, Moldavia, Cracow, Danzig to England. "Lithgow was in Ireland between August 1619 and February 1620. From Youghal he sailed to St Malo and proceeded to Portugal and Spain through France (where the traveller is advised to avoid lodging near 'palludiat Ditches, least the vehemency of chirking frogs, vexe the wish'd for Repose of his fatigated body, and cast him in a vigilant perplexity'; ibid., 382). The attack at Málaga "Lithgow's account of what happened to him in Málaga in the autumn of 1620 needs to be treated-like his other encounters with Roman Catholics-with a degree of caution, especially since it was first published in the virulently anti-Spanish context of 1623. He was waiting for a boat bound for Alexandria, he says, when he was seized and secretly imprisoned in the governor's palace. He was suspected of spying for the English ships which had come against the pirates of Algiers and with the crews of which he had been happily fraternizing. Kept in irons, he was taken in late December to be tortured at a vine-pressing house a league from the town. His terrible sufferings included six hours on the rack. When he failed to confess to spying-this is where the details become arguably less convincing-he was charged instead with heresy, tortured again, and told that he would be burnt at the stake unless he recanted within eight days. But at this point a Flemish servant told the English consul about Lithgow's plight. The consul alerted the ambassador in Madrid, who was able to arrange Lithgow's release on Easter Sunday 1621. "When Lithgow landed in England he was taken on a feather bed to the royal palace to show his 'martyrd anatomy' to the king and court. At James's expense he twice took the cure at Bath and largely recovered his health and strength, although his left arm remained badly damaged, but he found it more difficult to achieve redress from the Spaniards. The ambassador in London, Gondomar, promised compensation in June 1621, but it was not forthcoming. In April 1622 he confronted Gondomar and as a result Lithgow was committed to the Marshalsea prison for nine weeks. He claims at the end of the 'Totall Discourse' he had travelled 36,000 miles. According to tradition he died at Lanark sometime after 1645." (ODNB) By 1614 many of the distinctive features of Lithgow's writing were in place: the anti-Catholicism (varied by and on occasion linked to anti-Muslim sentiments); the action-filled narrative (doubtless exaggerated at times); the accounts of charges, expenses, thefts, and counter-balancing gifts and rewards; the often colourful 'aureate' style and vocabulary. "Some time before he was twenty-one Lithgow was savagely maltreated by the brothers of a woman with whom he was involved-he described the incident thirty years later as 'foure blood-shedding wolves' devouring 'one silly stragling lambe' (Lithgow, Totall Discourse, 6). Among the other reasons he gave for embracing a life of difficult travel is that 'the science of the world', which is superior to other branches of knowledge, is 'acquisted ... above all, and principally by Travellers, and Voyagers in divers Regions, and remote places, whose experience confirmeth the true Science therof'."(Bosworth, An intrepid Scot: William Lithgow of Lanark's Travels in the Ottoman Lands, North Africa and Central Europe, 1609-1621, 2017.).
The Misfits (Original photograph from the 1961 film)

The Misfits (Original photograph from the 1961 film) by Marilyn Monroe, Clark Gable, Montgomery Clift (starring); John Huston (director); Arthur Miller (screenwriter)

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The Misfits (Original photograph from the 1961 film)
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Marilyn Monroe, Clark Gable, Montgomery Clift (starring); John Huston (director); Arthur Miller (screenwriter)
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N.p.: N.p., 1961. Vintage reference photograph from the 1961 film, showing Marilyn Monroe, Clark Gable, and Montgomery Clift. Annotations in manuscript ink, some white-out, and a stamp on the verso. A bleak, haunting film exploring the loss of independence, about a recent divorcée who enters into an unstable relationship with an aging cowboy whom she meets in the Nevada desert. Shot on location in Reno and Dayton, Nevada. 10 x 8 inches. Pinholes at the corners, else Near Fine.

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